MANILA, Philippines - Ambient/Media, Global Resource Creative Exchange, Inc., Sony Music and NET 25 present the concert Joanna Ampil: West End Girl on Sept. 18 at the Onstage Greenbelt. Together with FILharmoniKA with Gerard Salonga, and special guest artist, Ariel Rivera, Joanna will serenade the audience with music which has her dubbed as the West End Girl, having performed in lead roles in London’s West End for 17 years.
Joanna auditioned at 17 for Miss Saigon and went directly to London for her first professional theater appearance. Since then she has opened Miss Saigon in Sydney. She has continued her stellar theater debut with performances as Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar, Fantine and Eponine in Les Miserables, Mimi in Rent and many others on the West End stage. She has performed for the Queen during a special Les Miz production at the Windsor Castle. Joanna has since returned to the Philippines for the role of Maria in West Side Story.
She has also released a pop album Try Love under Sony Music which features her renditions of timeless songs such as The Carpenters’ I’m Caught Between Goodbye and I Love You, I Don’t Have The Heart by James Ingram and the latest single The Last Time I Felt Like This, her duet with Ariel.
Joanna has also been invited to perform in concerts in Taiwan, Korea and Hong Kong. It will be her first concert in Manila this year.
Tickets at P2,000, P1,200, P900, P700 and P500 are available at Ticketworld outlets or call 891-9999 or log on to www.ticketworld.com.ph.